We [Democrats] are looking for things that we think would make a difference, improve the country, and enjoy some bipartisan support.

The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.

All Citizens United did was to level the playing field for corporate speech. We now have, I think, the most free and open system we've had in modern times.

You'll regret this, and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think.

For everybody who thinks it's warming, I can find somebody who thinks it isn't.

Republicans will not be reduced to being the tax collectors for the Obama economy.

It's a shame that we have to use whatever leverage we have in Congress to get the president to deal with the biggest problem confronting our future. And that's our excessive spending.

The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law.

America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.

Whether it's before the election or after the election, the principle is the American people are choosing their next president and their next president should pick this Supreme Court nominee.

The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.

Being a parent is joyful, but it's also haunted by the specter of loss.

When you judge yourself for needing help, you judge those you are helping. When you attach value to giving help, you attach value to needing help.

Lampard's not the first player to run to the crowd with lips over his mouth.

We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.

Death is one dream out of another flowing.

Michael Arndt, that guy - you're just supposed to say nice things about other writers, but I worship Michael Arndt.

I'm a living example of getting into films backwards. Merely by accident. Exposure to films and ideas is the best thing that colleges can do.

Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

One can not be just if one is not humane.

The idea that we can take this lump of clay and mold it into a form of our choosing is absolutely ludicrous.